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>>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> This is wrong on so many levels. :( It starts with the fact that the |
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>> dot over the lowercase latin i historically never was a diacritical |
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>> mark [1]. |
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>> Maybe we should advise users in our documentaion that they should |
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>> avoid such broken locales for ebuilds? |
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> i'm not sure telling people their native language is wrong is a smart |
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> move. it also would seem to cut against the purpose of the PMS. |
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There is of course nothing wrong with the Turkish language or writing |
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system. |
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However, if a language attaches meaning to the dot and uses it as a |
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diacritical mark, then it is (IMHO) not the smartest move to encode it |
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in a way that the letters I and i (which historically in the Latin |
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alphabet are upper and lower case variants of each other) are reused. |
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The sane thing would have been to encode the two Turkish i variants as |
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"LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE" etc. |
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Ulrich |
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